English-German translations for coerce

• erzwingen
• zwingen
  Es ist unglaublich unklug von den alten Kernstaaten der EU, uns übrige Länder zu zwingen, ohne unsere Bürger zu fragen. It is incredibly unwise of the EU's old core states to coerce the rest of us without asking our citizens.

Definition of coerce

• To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb
• To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type

Related words

• coercive
• coercion
• coercible
• coercibleness
• coercivity
• coerced sterilization
• type coercion